Eberhard Anheuser

Eberhard Anheuser (27 September 1806-2 May 1880) was the co-founder of the Anheuser-Busch brewing company in St. Louis, Missouri alongside his son-in-law, Adolphus Busch.

Biography
Eberhard Anheuser was born in Kreuznach, Rhineland, First French Empire in 1806 to a family of vineyard owners. In 1842, Anheuser and two of his brothers moved to the United States, and they settled in St. Louis, Missouri, which was home to a significant German community. In 1853, he became a creditor of the Bavarian Brewing Company, and he took over the company in 1860 when it ran into financial troubles. When his daughter married young immigrant Adolphus Busch, he made Busch a co-owner and renamed the company "Anheuser-Busch", and Busch took over more of the company's duties as Anheuser aged. Anheuser died in 1880 at the age of 73.